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People: “That baby is so cute, I could just eat them up!”

Conservatives:

Mirror?

My grandma, mom, and I are doing our part. 🫡

Gotcha. Thanks.

Lmao, no I’m not.

This will be my last post because we’re not getting anywhere: But I am not pro genocide. None of any of my comments in this thread have alluded as such. I am just as aware and horrified. But I’m being realistic. The US has the blood of many nations on their hands and it doesn’t make me all warm and fuzzy, but in the next few weeks, I believe that the greatest use in my vote is at the very least putting someone in office who isn’t going to tell Israel to get it over with and just kill everyone.

All the third party does in its current state is take dem votes, making easier for the right. Dems are not going to get any message, the right will just get the key to the city. Now, is that going to be the case next time around? I’ll do what I can, no matter how small, to change that. But this year, this election, the best we can hope for is to minimize the damage because that is our only realistic option.

Both sides are commuting genocide, so are you okay with doing nothing? Do you truly believe Trump will be just as bad in office, and therefore it doesn’t matter? That’s a question I cannot answer for you. If you believe that voting 3rd party is going to make your stand or help someone, there’s nothing else for me to say. It just is what it is and we’ll have to let the pieces fall where they may.

As important as I think this election is, we’re just going to have to agree to disagree.

Maybe you aren’t trying again, but don’t try to tell me what I will and will not do.

And still no answers, hmm? You went to, “Nuh uh, you’re shaming the left in favor of a Hitler.” Still no response to what we should do except nothing or vote for something we know isn’t going to make a difference. Ya’ll throw out “Hitler” like it’ll make someone pause, when a it does is highlight what a ignorant voter your are. If you truly think the choice we have between Trump and Harris is picking between two equally bad Hitler-like candidates, then I’m glad you’re throwing your vote away, because you’re a dumb ass with an oversimplified view of the world that you live in.

Do nothing then, but don’t try to promote people to do the same stupid shit. Don’t sit here and try to further divide the left so we can fight amongst ourselves while the fascists just keep on chugging, because that’s exactly what they want. While you’re sitting on your hands, the rest of us are going to work. The rest of us will try our best to get through this election so we can try again. We will vote, we will protest, and we will work. We won’t sit on our hands and will the government with inactivity, or the voting equivalent of “hopes and prayers” mere weeks before an election, because we want to have a temper tantrum about the world we live in, because we don’t have time for that. We are all disappointed in our candidates, but we have shit to do. We understand that allowing Trump in the office again is only going to make things harder and worse and will make any change damn near impossible. We’ll be the adults for you and get shit done. You can come back to the grown up table next election, if we even get to there. But, please, let those in Gaza know that you’ve done literally nothing for them except try to make your own country worse. I’m sure they’ll relieved. 🙄

Here, I’ll even do the response for you:

“You’re just saying you’d vote for the Nazis if they were only a teeny different! You can think genocide is okay, even though I’m not doing shit about it! I have to say you won’t do anything too, or I may have to come to terms with my own cowardice. I’m going to throw my vote into the garbage because that’ll show them Dems that I’m not playing around! Who cares if we turn into a Nazi led government. I didn’t vote for them, I just did nothing to stop anything, and if I can’t save everyone or fix the world in one election, everyone else can suffer because no one in my country or the world is more important than me acting like a child. I know if I say enough ‘Hitler’ and ‘you liberals’ you’ll make me feel better because I’ll have a position to defend! Because nothing is more left leaning than doing fuck all and allowing facisim to walk throw the door unencumbered, obviously.”

You’re welcome.

In this current landscape, no. Come November, this is it. These are the choices we have. I have to look at everything and find the lesser of two evils. It sucks, but it’s where we are. No, I am not at all pleased with what Harris has had to say about Gaza, but it’s not as if I have another, reasonable option to vote for in the next three weeks. So who do I think it going to be “better” for the next four years while we try again. Neither of them is likely to passify me when it comes to Gaza, but one of them believes in trans rights. Unfortunately, that is better than nothing.

One month before the election is not time to stand on business, the players are set. Now next year, and the next following years until we end up at the next election, absolutely. I have no problem making my voice heard and attempting change when it could actually do something. It’s like, when they tell you to put your own mask on before helping someone else in a plane. Both Gaza and America need “air.” We can even say that, while America is “light headed,” Gaza has already lost consciousness. As much as I wish I could kill two bird with one stone and pick the better candidate and the one against genocide, I can’t, there’s no a “joint mask” that’s fallen for me to pick. But if I put on my mask first, take a deep breath, I’ll get time to try again, maybe even save someone. If I don’t take that mask, no one is getting help and I’ll just pass out too.

I have to do what I can in this moment, and right now that’s trying to put the more sane of the two candidates in office.

One side is way more than just “more annoying.” You’re throwing away your vote, period. We cannot be single issue voters, because there isn’t only a single issue at stake. The right will vote against their own self interests every time it the right says they hate the right people.These elections are how they get their players in place. This is how we got here. The players the right have placed in courthouses, congress, the senate, and the supreme court are there reasons we lost Roe v Wade in the first fucking place.

I’m not going to sit here and think that the dems are going to fix every single problem, but I know for a fact Trump would make it worse. People pulled this same shit last election, and the one before. Thinking that, “Oh, well, they’ll see that I’m not gonna vote and then they’ll change.” Magats will vote against their own self interest because they’re damn near a cult. We vote against our own self interests to, what, prove ourselves a point? Teach our politicians a lesson? Make it harder for the Bernies and AOCs to have even a ice cubes chance of hell of even discussing change? For some reason, we can’t see the forest through the trees. It’s so frustrating. People like you want to make it seem like a vote for Harris is a vote for genocide knowing damn well is the only sane option we have. Because you mean to tell me you really fucking think the Republicans are going to handle Gaza with care? Or that they’ll be just a little worse to work with? You genuinely believe that?

So tell me, at the end of this “protest,” what’s the plan? We absolutely know that the third party is going to lose, so it’s either Trump or Harris who have any reasonable odds of winning. So Harris loses, are you happy in this situation? The Republicans will actively block anything to help anyone, but I guess no one getting help is better than anyone getting help in your world. I’m not happy with my choices, but I’m a fucking adult, and adults have to make tough decisions. Adults have to weigh the options. Adults have to look ahead. I know right now I have no feasible candidate to vote for that can assist with Gaza right now, but I know one of those candidates is not going to go on live television and stir a race war by claiming Haitian immigrants are eating fucking cats and dogs. I know one of those candidates doesn’t believe that there are active abortions going on at nine months. I know one of those candidates isn’t going to continue to restrict the rights of citizens in their own country that they don’t like. I know one candidate isn’t going too be too busy sucking Putin’s dick for money and compliments to govern.

Right now, let’s say you and your family are poisoned (not because of what you believe, but go with me here). We give you two cups. One will not only do nothing for you, it will actually make your condition worse and much more painful. Another one may help you, it could even have the antidote, but all you know is that it will not make your condition worse and will at the very least slow the spread, giving you time to think of a plan should it fail. Whatever you pick, your family has to pick too. Your choice in this scenario is to stare at both cups, willing one to change into the antidote with inaction while you continue to succumb to poison. Your family pleades to at least not make their deaths worse, to at least take the possible antidote, or at least give them time, but you’re like, “no, no, no, I think these cups are starting to get that I’m not easily swayed!”

I am sorry that we’re in this situation, but we are. Voting for third party is throwing away your vote. If that’s what you wanna do, I can only hope that the rest of us have more sense to make up for it.

If I was posting it as a meme? Maybe. I could see myself posting like… “someone waking up at 6 am VS someone already up” and post just the character singing the line. Would I expect everyone to get it? No, not unless I’m posting in a place where 100% of the people are supposed to know the next scene is him at a funeral. But I’d be okay knowing that some people may not get the joke because I didn’t post, “by the way, you see, in this scene, this character is saying ‘it’s a beautiful morning,’ but it is in fact not a beautiful morning! Because he is actually at a funeral, which is so sad! I used this because, while someone who is still awake might enjoy an early morning, someone who is just waking up may not. You see, if you watched the show, you will know the next scene is people looking confused and offended at the funeral. This would be the face of the early riser, would it not! Oh, what a laugh! Please see this link to the full scene and episode, so the joke can really hit you.”

Tons of memes are reduced to their basic parts. That’s just memes. Hell," Loss" is a great example of that. It’s just layout at this point. And sometimes if you don’t see the reference where people sneak it in, you’re just like, “I don’t get it, this just looks like a normal post” and that’s okay. It’s okay not to get the joke.

I think you’re really hung up on that they brought up that Columbus was a shitty person. The joke isn’t even about that. Like you said, it’s well known, it’s the context in which the information is being given that makes it funny.

I don’t know if you’ve ever seen Scrubs, but there’s a scene when a character burst into the scene singing “It’s a Beautiful Morning.” Turns out he’s at a funeral. That isn’t funny because the character sang a song, it’s funny because of where he was singing it and how it’s juxtaposed with where he was. What you’re doing right now is, “so what’s the joke? That it’s a beautiful morning? We already know that! This is woke bullshit!”

That’s not at all what I said, and I think you know that. Wanting to help someone is not the same as wanting to kill someone else. My vote doesn’t save Gaza, because there is unfortunately no option, but my vote could still help someone. Not voting, or throwing it away, literally doesn’t help anyone.

I hope you find peace with your indecision and your cowardice should the rest of the country not be able to make up for your inactivity. But I’m sure those suffering in Gaza will feel better knowing that someone in Texas is bleeding out in the parking lot. That’ll show 'em.

In your example, their solution is absolutely being a murderer. They didn’t pull the trigger, but they condemned those people to death. They know that refusing is killing those people, that their refusal is the cause for those peoples deaths. I’m not saying that I don’t think Gaza is important, or that it’s not worth fighting for, but I extend that same importance to my countrymen as well. I think the woman who may need an abortion is important, even if I never get one. I think that my neighbor’s kids should have a save school, and not be laden I’m debt, even thought I don’t plan to have children.

I cannot stop what’s going on in Gaza. It’s a horrible, terribly bitter pill to swallow, but it is the truth. However, I’m not going to set everyone else on fire so we can all burn together in solidarity. Too many other people’s lives are at stake. And I’m not saying their lives are more important than those in Gaza, I’m saying they’re just as important. Kill one person, or kill everyone. I would rather save someone than no one.

I guess that just doesn’t make sense to me in the current political landscape. We know the third party isn’t going to get the votes, and we also know that Trump is not only not going to save Gaza, he’s going to do everything in his power to make this country worse as well. Currently, voting third party is throwing your vote away. I’m not saying I’m in love with the system or that it isn’t fucked, but we have two options this election. Neither of them is going to save Gaza, but I don’t see why damming the whole country, as well as yourself, to a worse existence, is the more sane option.

Okay, but, abandon her for whom exactly? Just not vote? Vote 3rd party? I am not going to say Harris is perfect, but this is cutting off your nose to spite your face.

It’s a scene from a show. The joke is that woman being a killjoy. Yes, the scene may need to be explained, but so does, like, that “this is my hole” meme. If you don’t understand context, then it may miss you.

And, honestly, even if it is “woke,” okay? Like, I don’t understand the issue. Just that you don’t think it’s funny?

I saw someone do this for the first time in my 20’s and since then I never pull from the light without looking that everyone is stopped. I was nearly tboned by someone doing this. My light was green as I approached and there was a wall to my right so I couldn’t even see him coming. He sped by me while I slammed on the brakes. Scared the shit out of me.

I love those! I had bought one with the pockets of beads and hated it, but the braided one is much better. I’ve had mine for a few years now, and it’s still hanging in there.

Use that image to reply to every one of them that’s kicking up a fuss.